I remember when everyone was on Napster. If I remember correctly the gov started penalizing people for dowloading. I decided to go to KaZaa which was not as popular and it was great. But eventually it became plagued by fake files, viruses, beeps in songs etc so I found limewire which not a lot of people knew about and it was awesome. Now, limewire started down the same route as Kazaa and Napster.

I am convinced any P2P filesharing program will inevitably become corrupted as more people find out about it. I still unhappily use limewire. I don't really know how to use torrents.

Easy as pie. You find a Torrent site i.e u-torrent or demonoid. Then you join if required. After that, just download and save the file you want. The file will then be downloaded on limewire.

Been using the above for years. You can find all the rare files and stuff you are looking for there. There are specific hubs for every taste and need, even a White Nationalist one.

If I had to, I'd recommend this. Limewire, emule and those all have incomplete, mis-labelled, and virus-infest files etc.

Fake Media

Almost 500,000 people have been caught out by a booby-trapped media file, says security firm McAfee.

The fake file poses as a music track, short video or movie and has been widely seeded on file-sharing networks to snare victims. McAfee said the fake media file outbreak was the largest it had seen for about three years. Those running the fake file get bombarded with pop-up ads and risk compromising the safety of their PC.

The fake file or trojan has been widely distributed on the eDonkey and Limewire file-sharing networks. The file has many names and is written in different languages to trick people into downloading it. The titles make the file appear to be music tracks, pornography and full versions of popular movies.

Anyone downloading the trojan and trying to run it is asked to install a codec that will play the supposed media.

Instead of playing the media, running the file installs a bundle of adware that plagues a user with pop-ups. Included in the bundle is an MP3 media player that will only play the tracks included with it. McAfee said seeing such a large outbreak was rare because hi-tech criminals typically prefer to target their malicious creations to keep numbers manageable and to avoid detection.

In the last seven days McAfee said the trojan had been found on more than 500,000 of the PCs that notify the company when a malicious file is downloaded. It added that, so far, only 10% seem to have gone as far as to install the fake codec and be plagued with pop-ups.

Other security companies have seen the trojan but not in such large numbers as McAfee. Only those using Windows are vulnerable to the malicious program. McAfee urged users to update their security software and to be wary when using file-sharing networks.

Don't argue with me. Delete emule, limewire etc. They are so crappy it hurts to even type their names in fear some lonely spider crawls this page and preserves their horrid legacy.

I could not agree more...nothing comes close to Soulseek! Simple and easy enough to use...just remember to share your files, and you should be fine.

A warning though...you can get lost in Soulseek for weeks on end , especially if your musical tastes are wide-ranging.I don't mean to sound like some advertorial, but it really is that good.

it's a huge community, so you do occasionally come across a few idiots...if you cop a ban from someone it may be because they have browsed your files and decided you are too politically incorrect. It's all part of the cut and thrust on Soulseek...it's easy enough to find folks with similar tastes and politics.